"
"Meaning, sir----"
"Meaning that I shall bring an action for foreclosure and do what I
can with the lands."
George's face darkened.
"And that reads, sir, that the Squire and Miss Ida will be turned out
of Honham, where they and theirs hev been for centuries, and that you
will turn in?"
"Well, that is what it comes to, George. I am sincerely sorry to press
the Squire, but it's a matter of thirty thousand pounds, and I am not
in a position to throw away thirty thousand pounds."
"Sir," said George, rising in indignation, "I don't rightly know how
you came by them there mortgages. There is some things as laryers know
and honest men don't know, and that's one on them. But it seems that
you've got 'em and are a-going to use 'em--and that being so, Mr.
Quest, I have summut to say to you--and that is that no good won't
come to you from this here move."
"What do you mean by that, George?" said the lawyer sharply.
"Niver you mind what I mean, sir. I means what I says. I means that
sometimes people has things in their lives snugged away where nobody
can't see 'em, things as quiet as though they was dead and buried, and
that ain't dead nor buried neither, things so much alive that they
fare as though they were fit to kick the lid off their coffin.
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